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Journal of the West is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0), WoS AHCI. Published by ABC-CLIO.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0022-5169Verify ISSN ↗1930-0115Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1888 / 1936 | 1st | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1404 / 1434 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–2025 (also 2000, 1988–1990, 1982, 1977–1978, 1972, 1969), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Journal of the West is Q4 in History (rank 1888 of 1936) and Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1404 of 1434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the West is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 1st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 7.
Journal of the West is published by ABC-CLIO. Its print ISSN is 0022-5169 and its online ISSN is 1930-0115.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the West has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of the West published 9 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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